Benighted - definition, pronunciation, transcription
Amer.
|bɪˈnaɪtɪd|
Brit.
|bɪˈnaɪtɪd|
adjective
- overtaken by night or darkness
benighted (or nighted) travelers hurrying toward home
- lacking enlightenment or knowledge or culture (syn: dark)this benighted country
benighted ages of barbarism and superstition
benighted ages of barbarism and superstition
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...the poor benighted souls who do not know the joys of reading...
...formerly charactered as “the dark ages,” that period of history may not have been quite so benighted as once thought...
The tourists were benighted in a forest. (Th. De Quincey)
The clouds looked heavy and benighted the sky.
The benighted peoples of this area
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